Word: descent
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...station as early as this year. "If we don't get the funding soon," says one of Mir's handlers, "who knows when and how we'll have to bring the station down?" Officials insist that there is no cause for alarm. "We can manage the initial descent," says space-agency spokesman Anatoly Tkachyov, describing a plan to drop the station gradually into descending orbits. If its interlocking modules successfully separate, the station will then tumble piece by piece to Earth; Moscow hopes that whatever bits of the 120-ton space station don't burn up in free fall will...
Thus, upon my descent from the land of Student Advantage to the land of student disadvantage, I expected to be confronted by a barrage of real people. And I was, but with an unexpected twist. To my surprise, I found that the vast majority of real people I met who had graduated from college recently--that is, within the past two, three or even four or five years--are living in a state of denial. They are technically real people, but you'd never know...
PARIS: You'd think France's World Cup soccer exploits would whip the country's right-wing nationalist politicians into a patriotic frenzy -- instead, it leaves Jean-Marie Le Pen and his ilk in an awkward position. Their problem: France's soccer heroes are mostly of African descent, and the anti-immigrant Le Pen doesn't consider them "real" Frenchmen. "In the past, Le Pen has complained about the predominance of black and Arab players and said it couldn't really be considered a French team," says TIME Paris bureau chief Tom Sancton. "But they're smart enough to know...
Sheedy's performance maintains an incredible level of focus and emotion, a feat that High Art itself does not manage to copy. For one, the last chapter of the film involves a descent into sentiment that nothing in the rest of the picture prepares us for. Moreover, Cholodenko falls into her own writerly trap just as Neil LaBute did in last year's In the Company of Man: her escalating interest in her story's allegorical conflicts of Work, Love, and Ambition bleed all the initial power from an emotionally explosive scenario...
This book should change that. The Accidental Asian provides a perspective on race often ignored in America's black-white conversation. It is in part a collection of essays on racial identity and the place in American life occupied by the 10 million Americans who claim Asian descent. But it is also a family narrative: the story of Liu's immigrant Chinese parents and their assimilation into American society, and Liu's own struggle to transcend his race while not selling out his heritage. The result is a unique--and uniquely American--memoir, suffused with smarts, elegance and warmth...